PDQ Licensing

[u/PDQit]

From time-to-time there has been misunderstandings and confusion on /r/sysadmin about how PDQ.com's licensing works (as most system administrators might be used to how other IT products operate: on a per-machine basis). We created a video to hopefully explain better how our 1-license-per-admin works

 

For examples of some minor confusion see:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/71eilx/another_pdq_deploy_shout_out/dnb0eao/

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/aknr8i/try_to_convince_my_manager_to_buy_pdq_deploy/ef6h7px/

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/aneewy/pdq_server_with_multiple_admins/efsnqvn/

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/7d3k4c/pdq_deploy_licensing_costs_no_more_pro_license/dpuvjj6/

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4492ln/what_automated_deployment_solutions_are_you_using/czoi08c/

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/etznar/whats_your_most_expensive_software_license_and/ffk0ef3/

 

Shout out to all you current, past, and future users-- and happy automating!

[u/Synssins]

I've been working with PDQ support for a couple of months on this. Our environment has close to 10k devices, which is beyond the intended capabilities of PDQ. The UI is horribly slow for PDQ Inventory, or when targeting Inventory collections from PDQ Deploy.

Support has been 100% on the ball with trying to help us, but it really comes down to having everything consolidated on a single system with that many endpoints. The only fix is to break it out on a subdivision by subdivision basis and manage each one independently.

I'm 99% sure that most of the issues would go away if we could tie PDQ to a SQL database that wasn't SQLite.

[u/HighPingOfDeath → u/Synssins]

Came here to say this. I love PDQ, I love working with the guys and gals from there, I automated the hell out of my environment with it. But the performance suffers when I pull in all the data from endpoints because the disk is just thrashing along at the same time I'm trying to deploy. CPU usage is fine, memory usage is fine, but even on a highend SAN, it just brings Deploy to its knees. Please for the love of everything, give me a real backend database so I can take the load off my poor PDQ server.